Heating arrangement for silos.



W. ROHM.

HEATING ARRANGEMENT FOR slLos;

APPLICATION HLED MAR- 5, 1915.

1,168,424. Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET I.

Ti FE- WITNESSES 11v VEN TOR.

William Rul r 11 .10 Z-JMU" ATTORNEY.

HEATING ARRANGEMENT FOR SILOS.

APPLICAUON FILED MAR. 5, 1915. A

Patented Jan. 18, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2- IIIIIIIIIIA A TTORNE 7 THE COLUMBIA pLANoan w-l 60., WASHINGTON. D. C.

- i space between said two w nsand a heater "see .APPl 1 the b l ybf eg nie "31 1 ariclusefnl'Heating Armn ement for Silos,"

" ,ofiwhieh the following is speeifieation. if,

if: My invention'irelate's tea hollow wt-an silo and may be made of two Walls of wn tte, of Cement blocks orfbriek, as preferred, With outside of the silo arranged tfi deliver" heat to. the spacebetween said all's forfeiiiilation around the silo. There arehoriz ntally ,nurnberfaii'dlocation as the diameter and height ofthe silo requires f rtile succe sful ,lieating off the; contentsa'of the Silo, "two h v I term nati n ofthe horizontal bafll'e plate l6 and thefvertical baffleplate' 17, which e011- 'n ts w th the Pla i511 hor'i' zontalfi and 7 three v'e'rtieanya ran ed 2o bafiie pl es i g .sh 'wn, in t e Pr nt '1 The in'v'e'naon is shown In the accompanylng drawing; which f H igure 1 is a} side elevation. of a silo with ggjniy invention applied to it. Fig. 21s a plan.

\ Q1 he] same in section. Figt3is a vertieal s ection of the' silo diametrically thereofias ,}it appears in looking toward the 'heater'fin ig. 2. Fig. v4 a' detailin horizontal seevz'ontalfsection;across"the silo thrq hlthe 'lowerjbaiile plate. Fig. 6 is a Vertic% 1l-;see-

U ,tion,lthe roof being omitted, of the [silo as git appearsin looking to the left of ;the lin'e alyof F g F 7 s h ri e ta'l sec n of t eisil 11pm thel n i th o gh-t upp f F g: 8 is a e t ls. of t e 's' lo;..t ,roo.f being om e as t at in leak g IQ the r ght o the lilitfis, J4,

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walls vwe inside wall; tie.

w 1iin bui ding-it; era on: 5 tie s'the d e oi'a niiliis. a d neeting rwith-the rocl'sfi'; "lhesetiero'ds' 5, are en-ly' shown in ig. 4 on aoeonntej the small scale of the other figure'sl, 1nd -are not anelement of this intention.

8, denotes the silo roof, and 9, a heater material as that of the 'silowalls.

therein; 11, fire pot grate; l2, door, opening anatverea11y arranged baflle plates of seen tionofthe door opening. Fig.5 isga horirs Of 7 itho ut thee ii o il "drawn end "th o t 'i i ns' of the vbafi tl te wou d-beinsufi en to vfeq iii l n fl mand f t e" hea er- 5 w These ,fiu'es 21 are quit 7 small, they bein'g f .r trevent fig c d a spa es n hejce ner's,

'nclqs iwh h m y be f rmed Qfthe 10, is an iron heater, and a fiie'met'" through which to fe ed inlfuelj 15, opening fromth space v3 to the upper part ofthe:

greater through theWallQ, andthrou gh 60 hi h pen ng the gas ous, P uct o th .fi l Om HSt O f IPfl I1 0 nd, a ndnthe S-Pfaee 8'.' Ate, suitable distance ab ove v11 f" Chi ean The ba fle extends around and acrossfithe spae'e 3, to I gang d Vertically, and forming a flue f, 'twfhi'chleads upward to the space around'the .s eabwe th ipl t 16- 17indicates in igs. atria 5, jbo t'h the d .xtendsdowa ward from'it and is plainly show bein Esq cQIiI1cted niF g 6-1 An th 'bajifieplate 11.8.; i a ra e djvntically be n the pl te so 17 511161'thef'heateriwhieh depends 1i'rorjrj1 the plate 11 I A balfle plate 191 rranged hori- Zontallyoiferthe Space 3a: a distan eoflb Tfeet, norexor less, above the plate 1 6. This secgnd horizontal plate istartsnear the door jainb at d, at the left (if th d or, see Figs. 1;'2,*'3, 7, 311 118, and ends at a clistan c'efo'fv 3 feet, more orless, from the right hand side of the door in Fig. 2, at 0, see Figs. 2,1? and 8, fro ln which point a fine 23 conneets the {space belowthe plate l9with the chimney f cmthe ho i onta -M t dr e f iv l baff plate 20, s arr nged; it ,tzld g n ard o t n a-"feet,

t t e around under the Vertically arranged plates p u i i h pit ,overi I 

